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Guess the Fish!(#fun)
100

What is it called when fish are caught and discarded as waste

What is by-catch

100

Huge fishing nets that scoop up everything in their path, profitable but destructive and most state has banned their use

What are drift nets?

100

Aquaculture is agriculture in...

water!

100

Type of water aquaculture is possible in

What is marine/brackish/freshwater?

100

What is salmon?

200

Amount of by-catch discarded each year


What is over 20 million metric tons?

200

Fishing method where a metal rake is used to scrape the ocean floor in order to collect mussels, clams, scallops, etc.

What is dredging?

200

Name two benefits of aquaculture

doesn't take lots of land space (less resources), reduces risk of ecosystem and fishery collapse

200

Intended to promote and support the development of private aquaculture and to ensure coordination among the various federal agencies that have aquaculture programs and policies

What is The National Aquaculture Act of 1980?

200

What is blue fine tuna?

300

Overfishing causes 90% of fishery population to decline

What is fishery collapse?

300

A type of deep-sea fishing gear consisting of a long main line anchored to the bottom to which shorter lines with baited hooks are fastened at intervals

what is long lines?

300

Name two drawbacks of aquaculture

contamination(lots of fish waste), fast spread of disease

300

The most common aqua-cultured fish

What is salmon/tuna/cod/trout?

300

What is a piranha?

400

What percent of ocean apex predators have been wiped out

What is 90%?

400

A fishing practice that herds and captures the target species, like ground fish or crabs, by towing a net along the ocean floor

What is bottom trawling?

400

What percent of the seafood eaten worldwide comes from aquaculture

What is over 50%?

400

Median salary of a aquaculture farmer

What is $25,063?

400

What is giant black sea bass?

500

Areas where fishing is highly regulated to solely small-scale operations or halted altogether in order to protect endangered ecosystems

What is Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)?

500

An effective fishing method for species that school near the surface; a large net is encircled around the targeted catch, after which the bottom of the net is drawn tight like the strings of a purse, thus confining the catch in the net.

What is purse seine fishing?

500

The 4 stages of aquaculture

What is hatchery, feed mills, farms, and processor?

500

What country is the largest aquaculture producer (bonus point for how many tons produced per year)

What is China? (63.7 million metric tons produced)

500

What is tequila splitfin fish?